tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145332831106508186.post3979068032992172516..comments2023-03-19T09:06:24.378-04:00Comments on /var/log/rant: Considering del ...Dave Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052163927020492687noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145332831106508186.post-5588143518602648332009-01-23T16:32:00.000-05:002009-01-23T16:32:00.000-05:00That's cool. R is a cool and wonderful thing, but ...That's cool. R is a cool and wonderful thing, but on occasion, it is stupid. For example, last year, I was working on a project to take data and use Perl to call R on a big Solaris machine to batch-create Quality Control graphs. Wanted to dump 'em to a web-friendly place, so we wanted JPG or PNG. But for R to make an image, it wanted X. It worked fine when I would ssh in, but not when I put it in cron. <BR/><BR/>I had to have it write to postscript and convert ps to jpg, with annoying image degradation.<BR/><BR/>And yeah. I run Gnome, and the Gnome of 2009 is scarcely recognizable from the Gnome of 2000.Dave Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15052163927020492687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145332831106508186.post-55654604697413046502009-01-23T15:56:00.000-05:002009-01-23T15:56:00.000-05:00That'd be far too simple and make too much sense. ...That'd be far too simple and make too much sense. OpenSource projects tend to be way too much like some kind of Computer Science experiment gone wrong...everything has to be insanely overcomplicated until things start to look like Windows (eek!)<BR/><BR/>Coincidentally I just packaged and pushed R 2.8.1 to all the ITaP labs last week :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00824533200820202740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145332831106508186.post-87141265707730597162009-01-23T11:40:00.000-05:002009-01-23T11:40:00.000-05:00That's about what I'm thinking. I'm a Perl guy, so...That's about what I'm thinking. I'm a Perl guy, so whatever I do, I'll do in Perl, but yeah, should be a simple piece of code. Code I can't dive into right now, because I should be considering dumping big tab-delimited files into R, but yeah.<BR/><BR/>But not as simple as moving to .Trash. Which I think should be .Trash/ anyway.Dave Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15052163927020492687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145332831106508186.post-87076834084229237612009-01-23T11:35:00.000-05:002009-01-23T11:35:00.000-05:00Seems pretty simple to duplicate what Gnome is doi...Seems pretty simple to duplicate what Gnome is doing...all you're doing is putting `pwd` and a formatted date into a text file with some reference text...unless I'm missing something specific about those *.trashinfo files...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00824533200820202740noreply@blogger.com